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Current state transportation system

Occidental Mindoro will soon have a smooth public transportation system amid the approval of
new inter-provincial routes and increased number of public utility vans and minibus in the province,
Rep. Josephine Ramirez-Sato said. “Thanks to Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade, Undersecretary
for Road Transport and Infrastructure Thomas Orbos, Asec Mark de Leon, and LTFRB Chairman Martin B.
Delgra III, for the prompt and favorable response to our request and recommendations,” the lady solon
said in a statement. “This will help ensure a better, faster, safer, and convenient means of public
transportation in Occidental Mindoro,” Sato added. Sato said that the LTFRB led by Delgra approved on
May 22, 2018 Board Resolution No. 041 pertaining to the opening of applications for the issuance of
new Certificate of Public Convenience (CPC) to operate UV Express Service and Public Utility Bus/Mini
Bus services in identified routes in Occidental and Oriental Mindoro. “Upon Sato’s appeal, Tugade
directed Orbos to immediately address the public transportation system problem besetting the Province
of Occidental Mindoro following a tragic bus accident involving a Dimple Star passenger bus that led to
the death of 19 passengers in March this year,” the statement read. The new approved routes include
the 88-km San Jose– Sablayan route which is now open for application for 20 units of UV Express
Service; the 92-km Sablayan – Mamburao, route open for 20 units of UV Express Service; 40-km
Mamburao – Palauan route open for 20 units of UV Express Service; the 30-km Mamburao-Abra de Ilog
route open for 20 units of UV Express Service and the 210-km San Jose, – Abra de Ilog route open for 20
units of PUB/Mini Bus; the 51-km San Jose Bulalacao route for 20 units of UV Express Service; and the
50-km Bulalacao-Roxas route open for 20 units of UV Express Service.

2 .Use fulness and effect of transportation system

Passengers in the Philippines use public utility vehicles such as buses and vans to travel easily
between cities and provinces . Because few Filipinos possess vehicles, public transportation is their only
practical mode. However, due to COVID-19, only 50–75% capacity has been allowed for public
transportation . Moreover, for the passengers to protect themselves from COVID-19, the government
added additional guidelines for using public transportation. These guidelines call for more frequent and
restrictive sanitizing of vehicles and floors, temperature checks for employees and, in some cases,
passengers, and improved ventilation of facilities and vehicles.